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Usable gestures for blind people: understanding preference and performance
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Despite growing awareness of the accessibility issues surrounding touch screen use by blind people, designers still face challenges when creating accessible touch screen interfaces. One major stumbling block is a lack of understanding about how blind people actually use touch screens. We conducted two user studies that compared how blind people and sighted people use touch screen gestures. First, we conducted a gesture elicitation study in which 10 blind and 10 sighted people invented gestures to perform common computing tasks on a tablet PC. We found that blind people have different gesture preferences than sighted people, including preferences for edge-based gestures and gestures that involve tapping virtual keys on a keyboard. Second, we conducted a performance study in which the same participants performed a set of reference gestures. We found significant differences in the speed, size, and shape of gestures performed by blind people versus those performed by sighted people. Our results suggest new design guidelines for accessible touch screen interfaces.
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“Kane and Ladner [15] recommend that touch interactions avoid the use of symbols found in print, favour edges and corners, reduce need for specific location accuracy, limit time restrictions for gestures, use familiar patterns and layouts used in other applications and more multi-touch gestures.”
BackgroundResultDesigning natural gesture interaction for archaeological data in immersive environments
Albertini, N., Brogni, A., Olivito, R., Taccola, E., Caramiaux, B., & Gillies, M. F. P. (2017) · Virtual Archaeology Review · doi:10.4995/var.2016.5872 · Cited by 9
Usability of User-Centric Mobile Application Design from Visually Impaired People’s Perspective
Qureshi, H. H., & Wong, D. H.-T. (2020) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_22 · Cited by 9
BrushLens: Hardware Interaction Proxies for Accessible Touchscreen Interface Actuation
Liang, C., Iravantchi, Y., Krolikowski, T., Geng, R., Sample, A. P., & Guo, A. (2023) · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) · doi:10.1145/3586183.3606730 · Cited by 9
“For visually impaired users, inaccessible touchscreen poses challenges in interface perception, navigation, and actuation [34, 37, 40, 52, 62].”
BackgroundSiebra, C., Gouveia, T. B., Filho, A., Correia, W. F. M., Penha, M., Anjos, M., Florentin, F., da Silva, F. Q. B., & Santos, A. L. M. (2015) · International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) · doi:10.1145/2700648.2811358 · Cited by 9
“Kane et al [3] proposed an accessibility guideline, however it is only focused on a particular scenario associated with the elicitation of gestures for visual impairment.”
BackgroundTouching the Data: Exploring Data Sonification on Mobile Touchscreen Devices
Nikitenko, D., & Gillis, D. J. (2014) · Procedia Computer Science · doi:10.1016/j.procs.2014.07.038 · Cited by 9
Seidel, N. (2015) · European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs · doi:10.1145/2855321.2855339 · Cited by 9
“Especially blind people benefit from gestures since the graphical user interface is not accessible for them without a screen reader [Kane et al. 2011].”
BackgroundExploring Haptics for Learning Bend Gestures for the Blind
Ernst, M., & Girouard, A. (2016) · CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) · doi:10.1145/2851581.2892382 · Cited by 9
Large-Scale User Perception of Synthetic Stroke Gestures
Leiva, L. A. (2017) · Designing Interactive Systems Conference · doi:10.1145/3064663.3064724 · Cited by 9
“This is an important result because recent literature on gesture analysis has shown how users produce different gesture articulations in various conditions [3, 13, 31].”
BackgroundParra, O., España, S., Panach, J. I., & Pastor, Ó. (2018) · Science of Computer Programming · doi:10.1016/j.scico.2018.12.001 · Cited by 9
“[16] describe two user studies that compared how blind people and sighted people use touch screen gestures.”
BackgroundMethodPortable navigations system with adaptive multimodal interface for the blind
Lock, J. C., Cielniak, G., & Bellotto, N. (2017) · Lincoln Repository (University of Lincoln) · Cited by 8
Quick-glance and in-depth exploration of a tabletop map for visually impaired people
Bardot, S., Brock, A., Serrano, M., & Jouffrais, C. (2014) · Conference on l'Interaction Homme-Machine (IHM) · doi:10.1145/2670444.2670465 · Cited by 8
Shabnam, M., & Govindarajan, S. (2015) · Cited by 8
Participatory Design of Touch Gestures for Informational Search on a Tablet Device
Rakubutu, T., Gelderblom, H., & Cohen, J. F. (2014) · South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists · doi:10.1145/2664591.2664594 · Cited by 8
“Kane, Wobbrock, and Ladner [3] conducted two user studies that compared how blind people and sighted people use touch screen gestures.”
BackgroundInfluentialVoice4Blind: The talking braille keyboard to assist the visual impaired users in text messaging
Hamzah, R., & Fadzil, M. (2016) · International Conference on User Science and Engineering · doi:10.1109/iuser.2016.7857972 · Cited by 8
“It is grade one version of Braille who is first starting to read Braille.[5].”
InfluentialBrailleTap: Developing a Calculator Based on Braille Using Tap Gestures
Alnfiai, M. M., & Sampalli, S. (2017) · Lecture notes in computer science · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58703-5_16 · Cited by 8
A Mobile Educational Game Accessible to All, Including Screen Reading Users on a Touch-Screen Device
Leporini, B., & Palmucci, E. (2017) · World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn) · doi:10.1145/3136907.3136941 · Cited by 8
“In designing these typologies of exercises, we relied on simple gestures and VoiceOver-like interaction ways with menus (single tap to hear an option and double tap to select it) in line with earlier accessibility work [15].”
MethodExploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access
Gross, M., Dara, J., Meyer, C., & Bolchini, D. P. (2018) · International Web for All Conference (W4A) · doi:10.1145/3192714.3192815 · Cited by 8
“Work spans from techniques for making mobile device interactions more accessible [1-6], design guidelines for mobile accessibility [7], and a variety of mobile applications for the blind designated to supporting daily tasks [8].”
BackgroundTouching Data: A Discoverability-based Evaluation of a Visualization Interface for Tablet ComputersPreprint
Sadana, R., Agnihotri, M., & Stasko, J. (2018) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.06084 · Cited by 8
“A different study methodology that captures similar aspects of people’s responses to an interface is the guessability study approach [20,26,41].”
BackgroundMack, K., McDonnell, E., Jain, D., Lu Wang, L., E. Froehlich, J., & Findlater, L. (2021) · Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3411764.3445412 · Cited by 7
Text entry for the Blind on Smartwatches: A study of Braille code input methods for a novel device
Luna, M. M., Nascimento, H. A. D., Quigley, A., & Soares, F. (2023) · Universal Access in the Information Society · doi:10.1007/s10209-022-00870-2 · Cited by 7
SparshJa: A User-Centric Mobile Application Designed for Visually Impaired
Gokhale, P., Pimpalkar, N., Sawke, N., & Swain, D. (2017) · Advances in intelligent systems and computing · doi:10.1007/978-981-10-3874-7_37 · Cited by 7
Haptic2FA: Haptics-Based Accessible Two-Factor Authentication for Blind and Low Vision People
Bhole, P. V., Li, Z., Bokolia, S., Oh, T. T., Tigwell, G. W., & Peiris, R. L. (2024) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3676509 · Cited by 7
Promoting Self-Efficacy Through an Effective Human-Powered Nonvisual Smartphone Task Assistant
Rodrigues, A., Santos, A. J. D., Montague, K., & Guerreiro, T. (2021) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3449188 · Cited by 7
“Prior work in smartphone accessibility for blind people has targeted issues discreetly, often isolating the task from the context it is performed in, focusing on performance metrics, such as the works in text-entry[4, 19, 21, 29], and gesture input [13, 23, 28, 30].”
BackgroundAccessibility of Date Picker for Touchscreens
Mehta, Y., Joshi, A. N., Joshi, M., & Jadhav, C. (2016) · International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3014362.3014368 · Cited by 7
Why visually impaired people resist to adopt touchscreen smartphones in the Czech Republic?
Balata, J., & Míkovec, Z. (2016) · IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications · doi:10.1109/coginfocom.2016.7804523 · Cited by 6
What Gestures Do Users with Visual Impairments Prefer to Interact with Smart Devices?
Vatavu, R.-D., & Vanderdonckt, J. M. (2020) · Designing Interactive Systems Conference · doi:10.1145/3393914.3395896 · Cited by 7
Dang, H., & Buschek, D. (2021) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3411764.3445765 · Cited by 7
“This stands in contrast to motivations for diverse samples and for training recognisers on elicited gestures [14, 25, 49, 63].”
ResultTilt-Explore: Making Tilt Gestures Usable for Low-Vision Smartphone Users
Momotaz, F., & Billah, S. M. (2021) · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) · doi:10.1145/3472749.3474813 · Cited by 7
“In order to identify these needs, we explored literature on several related areas, including accessible non-visual gestural input [24, 41, 42, 66], tilt inputs [45, 62], tilt-touch inputs [25, 63, 65], and human dexterity [12, 31].”
BackgroundLi, Z., Jiang, Y., Liu, X., Zhao, Y., Yu, C., & Shi, Y. (2022) · Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies · doi:10.1145/3550290 · Cited by 7
VIBI: A Braille Inspired Password Entry Model to Assist Person with Visual Impairments
Balaji, V., Kuppusamy, K. S., & Afzal, S. (2017) · Communications in computer and information science · doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7635-0_25 · Cited by 7
Two-button Mobile Interface: Touchscreen Based Text-Entry for Visually-Impaired Users
Cho, H., & Kim, J. (2017) · Advances in Computer-Human Interaction · Cited by 6
Hand Gesture Recognition for Blind Users by Tracking 3D Gesture Trajectory
Khanna, P., Ramakrishnan, I. V., Jain, S., Bi, X., & Balasubramanian, A. (2024) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3613904.3642602 · Cited by 9
Metadata
- Authors
- Kane, S. K., Wobbrock, J. O., & Ladner, R. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2011-05-07
- Pages
- 413-422
- OpenAlex
- W2136691781
- Cited by
- 314
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 32 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 45.03
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Keywords
- blind users, touch screen interface, touch gestures, accessibility, gesture elicitation, gesture performance, virtual keyboard, design guidelines, tablet computers, user study
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